Tec
aw professor announces retirement
Texas Tech University School of
Law professor J. Hadley Edgar will
retire this month after 20 years of
teaching.
Edgar's teaching career followed
15 years of practice with the law fIrm
of Gibson, Ochsner & Adkins in Amarillo. With an extensive litigation
practice experience, he was hired to
teach at Tech in 1971, just four years
after the school admitted its fIrst
class of students.
Besides teaching at Tech, Edgar
has taught at the University of Texas
Law School in Austin and St. Mary's
cated to teaching and research of
civil law.
His teaching expertise has foAdditionally, he was elected prescused on the areas of torts, strict liability, Texas procedure and trial ad- ident of Phi Delta Phi international
legal fraternity in 1985.
vocacy.
He was special counsel to the TexEdgar has been selected by stuas Senate on Tort Reform in 1987 and
dents at Tech as an Outstanding Law continues as a fellow of the AmeriProfessor in 1983 and 1985. Additioncan and Texas Bar Foundations.
ally, he was selected by the universiEdgar received his bachelor of
ty as the recipient of the President's
Excellence in Teaching Award in arts degree in economics from Texas
1982. In 1990, he was named as the A&M University in 1948 and his law
first recipient of the Judge Robert H. degree with honors from the UniverBean Professorship, which is dedi- sity of Texas School of Law in 1956.
Law School in San Antonio.